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A Tutorial on the Use of Excel 2010 and Excel for Mac 2011 for Conducting Delay-Discounting Analyses
Reed, Derek D.; Kaplan, Brent A.; Brewer, Adam T. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
In recent years, researchers and practitioners in the behavioral sciences have profited from a growing literature on delay discounting. The purpose of this article is to provide readers with a brief tutorial on how to use Microsoft Office Excel 2010 and Excel for Mac 2011 to analyze discounting data to yield parameters for both the hyperbolic…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Delay of Gratification, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring
Dixon, Mark R.; Jacobs, Eric A.; Sanders, Scott – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2006
The present study demonstrated the relative impact of gambling and nongambling contexts on the degree of delay discounting by pathological gamblers. We used a delay-discounting task with 20 pathological gamblers in and out of the natural context in which they regularly gambled. For 16 of the 20 participants, it appeared that the difference of…
Descriptors: Rewards, Delay of Gratification, Context Effect, Risk